page_title: Roll of Distinguished Philatelists
section_title: The "fathers of philately"
hierarchical_section_title: Roll of Distinguished Philatelists / The "fathers of philately"
caption_attribution_description: Statesmen No. 263: Caricature of James, Lord Lindsay MP (1847-1913), later 26th Earl of Crawford. Caption read "Astronomy".
context_page_description: The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists is a philatelic award of international scale, created by the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain in 1921. The Roll consists of three pieces of parchment to which the signatories add their names.
context_section_description: The names of forty-two deceased philatelists are printed on the Roll page that was signed between 1921 and 1935. They were placed in the ribbons that ornate the two columns on each side of the page. They were included as "fathers of philately".
  James H. Abbott (1851 – 1914, United Kingdom), pioneer of the overprint collection.
  Sir William Beilby Avery (1854–1908, United Kingdom), director of W & T Avery Ltd., great collector.
  François Georges Oscar Berger-Levrault (1823–1906, France), printer and collector, author of the first stamp catalogue in 1862.
  Friedrich Andreas Breitfuss (1851–1911, Russia), one of the collectors of essays and proofs.
  Mount Brown (1837–1919, United Kingdom), author of a stamp catalogue between 1862 and 1864.
  Maitland Burnett (1844–1918, United Kingdom), editor of The Philatelic Record.
  Gustave (1848–1894) and Martial Caillebotte (1853–1910, France), artists and stamp collectors.
  Marcellus Purnell Castle (1849–1917, United Kingdom), President of the Royal Philatelic Society London from 1913 to 1917, editor of The London Philatelist.
  Daniel Cooper (1821–1902, United Kingdom), first President of the Philatelic Society, London from 1869 to 1878.
  Henry J. Crocker (1861–1912, United States), great collector.
  J. A. Dunbar-Dunbar (1849–1905, United Kingdom), a Scottish reverend, his Australian collection went to the Museum of Science and Art in Edinburgh.
  Henry J. Duveen (born in the Netherlands), important collector.
  Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (1844–1900, United Kingdom), King George V's uncle, Honorary President of the Philatelic Society, London de 1890 à 1900.
  Philip la Renotiere von Ferrary (c. 1859 – 1917, Austria), rich buyer of stamps and stationery from many countries.
  Douglas Garth (15 May 1852 – 6 January 1900 United Kingdom), Honorary Secretary of the Philatelic Society, London from 1888 to 1894, collector of India.
  John Edward Gray (1800–1875, United Kingdom), zoologist at the British Museum, author of A Hand Catalogue for the Use of Collectors.
  Gilbert Harrison (1858–1894, United Kingdom), specialist of Afghanistan and Portuguese India.
  Leslie Leopold Rudolph Hausburg (1872–1917, United Kingdom), Honorary Secretary of the Royal Philatelic Society London from 1913 to 1917, spécialist of plating.
  Andrew Houison (1850–1912, Australia), specialist of the postal history of New South Wales.
  Henry King-Tenison, 8th Earl of Kingston (1848–1896, United Kingdom), President of the Philatelic Society, London from 1892 to 1896.
  Jacques Amable Legrand (1820–1912, France), pioneer of philately in France, inventor of the perforation gauge.
  Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster (1851–1897, United Kingdom), important Irish collector.
  James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913, United Kingdom), President of the Royal Philatelic Society London from 1910 to 1913, bibliophile, one of the first to include essays and proofs in his collections.
  Pierre Mahé (1833–1913, France), stamp dealer in Paris, in charge of Philipp von Ferrary's collection.
  David Parkes Masson (1857–1915, United Kingdom), specialist of India.
  Arthur Maury (1844–1907, France), stamp dealer in Paris, philatelic author and journalist, editor of Le Collectionneur de timbres-poste.
  Paul Mirabaud (1848–1908, France), specialist of Switzerland.
  Jean-Baptiste Moens (1833–1908, Belgium), stamp dealer in Brussels and philatelic author.
  Edward J. Nankivell (1848–1909, United Kingdom), journalist founder of The Postage Stamp in 1907, collector of China, New Zealand and Transvaal.
  Maria Pardo de Figueroa (1828–1918, Spain), one of the first specialist of postal markings.
  Edward Loines Pemberton (1844–1878, United Kingdom), stamp dealer and philatelic author, founding member of the Philatelic Society, London.
  Frederick Adolphus Philbrick (1835–1910, United Kingdom), founding member of the Philatelic Society, London.
  Dr. José Marcó del Pont (1851–1917, Argentina), specialist of Argentina and Latin America.
  Arthur de Rothschild (1851–1903, Belgium), collector of unused stamps issued between 1860 and 1880.
  Harold Row (1840–1919, United Kingdom),collector 
caption: James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
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